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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6: Beauty and Design.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Kant study throughout his early academic career?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Geography.
(c) A variety of disciplines.
(d) Math.

2. How does "Critique of Judgment" differ from "Critique of Pure Reason"?
(a) "Judgment" had stronger arguments.
(b) "Judgement" was written well, but "Pure Reason" was not.
(c) "Pure Reason" was more difficult to read.
(d) "Pure Reason" was more widely acclaimed.

3. Why does noumena serve a negative role in Kant's philosophy?
(a) It is logically impossible to know what role noumena play in phenomena.
(b) It is logically impossible to know what a thing is in itself.
(c) Noumena are generally negative objects.
(d) Kant's system does not acknowledge the existence of noumena.

4. What did Kant call it when one beholds an aesthetic object?
(a) Objective play.
(b) Foul play.
(c) Free play.
(d) Subjective play.

5. What did Kant say is a privileged place in perception?
(a) The future.
(b) The past.
(c) Relativism.
(d) The present.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following represented a difficulty for Kant because he wanted to classify it as practical reason?

2. What type of truth is "Fido has brown spots"?

3. What is the category for something considered to be trivially true?

4. What type of truth is one that is known before any experience?

5. According to the ontological argument, why does God exist?

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